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MEP Roundtable: Group Discussion on Industrial, Policy and Operational Challenges Facing the MEP
MEP Roundtable: Group Discussion on Industrial, Policy and Operational Challenges Facing the MEP
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"It's not sustainable to think we can design it here and it 29 Congress passed the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (America COMPETES) Act of 2007 with the overall goal of increasing federal investment in scientific research to improve U.S.
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Griffith whether he, as a corporate leader, would favor a national manufacturing policy, or whether he would prefer that the federal government not intervene in manufacturing activities.
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The current models are the biotech and IT model. The IT model is Hewlett-Packard or Apple, where "two guys in a garage build the world's best company." For biotech, the model begins with hundreds of millions of dollars of NIH investment in university academic medical centers, and technology is licensed to large pharmaceutical companies or intermediary biotech companies fueled by venture firms.
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Instead, he said, the university "created a model that is focused on relevance, connectivity, and productivity." This model embraces not only the biotech or IT industries, but touches the economy wherever it can, including SMEs to "make a difference that will be felt incrementally, gradually." He said the university would not restrict its economic development activities to its tech transfer office or commercialization group. The university as a whole would be available as a platform or tool chest to engage every discipline in whatever way is appropriate, sometimes by collaboration.
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industrial policy because I run a global manufacturing company, and if the United States doesn't do the policy well, I'll pack it up and move to India or France or Brazil.' " On the other hand, he said, some very large manufacturing companies do invest in the United States, and have a different view of free trade treaties, tariff barriers, dumping suits, and other policies. A KEY FOR THE STUDY: WHAT DO SMES NEED MOST The small manufacturers tend to be divided in the same way, Mr.
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He said that IRAP is housed in the National Research Council, and was created in the early 1960s to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across Canada. "It is highly recognizable and highly cherished by both politicians and private sector people alike for many different reasons," he said.
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Within the last year, the Minister of Industry, who has overarching policy authority for science, technology, and innovation, had commissioned an external panel of private sector and university leaders to examine the workings of the federal R&D system. Amongst its recommendations, the Panel suggested a restructuring of the National Research Council of Canada and a possible revision of the largest federal S&T program in Canada, the Scientific Research and Experimental Development Program.
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The meeting had not discussed the political environment in Washington, he said, "but even now the question of the role of the federal government in providing services and supporting companies is debated, and certain actions by some federal agencies don't help in that debate." He said that from his position as an observer of the MEP program since its inception, it had uniquely responded during the early 1990s to market failure. This he defined as small firms' lack of time, resources, and expertise to be able to obtain highquality technical assistance.
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He closed by urging all participants to "continue to communicate your ideas, suggestions, and comments as our review moves ahead."
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